okay, so im not a newbie, but ive never worked with gumpaste, only with MMF. can someone please tell me the difference! Im going to be making about 20 bows to put on a cake in a couple of weeks, i want to know if i should use gumpaste, and why? and how do i make it or where do i get it!?!? your help is GREATLY appreciated!

gumpaste dries much harder and faster than fondant alone. It can also be fragile. You can buy ready-to use GP, usually where they sell Wilton products. One package is more than enough for your bows.

I have found it to be a bit dry, so a little shortening will fix that right up.

personally i found gumpaste to be pretty tricky the first and only time ive used it so fary...but i was rolling it into a snake shape for monogram letters. it might work better rolled out for bows. it does dry on you, i kept the crisco near by while i was working with it.

I love working with gumpaste. The delicate flowers you can make from it are so realistic. Once dried, their shelf life is for ages.

I make all my bows out of gumpaste. I use Nic Lodge's recipe, only I tweak it. You can get them looking like real by putting them thru a pasta machine until they are REALLY thin.

HTH!

Jen